This article talks about Hunk (Splunk + Hadoop). It is a good example of how the various pieces are coming together to enable the Hadoop vision to become reality. Where will the mainstream commercial off the shelf folks be? Many of the mainstream data vendors are not moving their code into Hadoop (as Hunk is), but rather moving the extract into their machines.
There are some folks, who believe that the COTS products will win in the end, as they are going to reduce the cost to operate – or the total cost of ownership – to the point that it does not matter how “free” the open source stuff is. On the other hand there are company’s that are going the other way, and creating non traditional support models around open source software. This started with Red Hat. However, Red Hat still has the same approach to licensing – no matter what you use in terms of support, you still pay the license fee – that sounds like Oracle redux to me. I have seen that in a number of other Open Source product vendors as well. The new trend may be to support Open Source tools with a “pay for what you use” type menu. We will see how that goes. In the meantime, who names these products?
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